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Jack Vettriano [Scottish Realist Painter, b.1954]
Biography
Born in 1951, Jack Vettriano has emerged from the unlikely background of an early working life in the Scottish coal-fields to become Britain's best known contemporary artist; he is entirely self taught. He has only been painting full time since 1988 after his work first came to public prominence at the Royal Scottish Academy open exhibition. Since then there have been sell out exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong, Johannesburg and New York.
In less than fifteen years, the average price of his paintings has risen from a few hundred to tens of thousands of pounds. The demand for Vettriano's work is reflected in the successive record breaking prices that his paintings have achieved at auction in the last few years, most notably with the sale of The Singing Butler, the artist's most iconic image, which sold for ฃ740,000 at Sotheby's in April 2004 a record breaking price for a painting by a Scottish artist.
Aside from his exhibitions, Vettriano has acquired a vast following through the licensing and distribution of his images. To date, more than 3 million posters and cards featuring Vettriano's paintings have sold worldwide. (continued on the bottom)
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In June 2003, Vettriano received an OBE for Services to the Visual Arts, despite being a controversial figure within the art establishment. The only example of his work to be featured in a public collection is a painting donated by a collector to the Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery in Fife. To his critics, his work is at best nostalgic pastiche and at worst misogynistic soft porn; the latter description triggers an interesting debate in that the greater majority of his fans are women. The critics' disdain of his work has been matched by Vettriano's scorn but his popularity and earning power are undeniable. He is an artist whose work is adored and reviled in equally extreme measures. Vettriano's style has been compared to that of Edward Hopper.
There was increased media interest in Jack Vettriano in 2004, highlights being a South Bank Show documentary entitled The People's Painter followed by guest appearances on Breakfast with Frost and Desert Island Discs.
Vettriano's last exhibition, Affairs Of The Heart, was at Portland Gallery in July 2004 (details below) and there is an exhibition of paintings and new limited edition prints opening on 8th April 2006.